Asad Abbas Malik: Are Air-less Tires Coming Soon

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Are Air-less Tires Coming Soon

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Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc.

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SMRP, the M&R Practitioners' Professional Society

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Air-less Tires: Just Around the Corner?

For more than a century, drivers have been suffering the consequences when pressurized pneumatic tires lose their air. In a world where high-tech developments routinely transform nearly every aspect of our lives, why hasn't technology produced a tire that does away with flats and blowouts? While development work remains, it appears that Bridgestone has taken a big step in that direction. At the recent Tokyo Motor Show, the company unveiled non-pneumatic concept tires featuring radial "spokes" made by aspecial thermoplastic process. At present, however, the 9 in. tires can only handle loads of around 300 lbs as demonstrated in this story's embedded video.

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Polar Bear Fur

Polar bears appear white, although their fur actually lacks pigment. Why?

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Stack-up and the Basics of Multi-layer Construction

"The stack-up is the specific call out of material thickness and copper weights required to produce a particular multi-layered printed circuit board. The description of the stack-up can be found on the PCB fabrication drawing — a drawn cross-section depicting the material and copper thickness of each layer involved. The stack-up is how the designer tells the manufacturer they way to properly build the PCB to work as designed." Read this article in its entirety.

This article is provided by Bare Board Group, Inc.